What was the law for? Galatians 3 23 Before faith came, we were held in custody under law, confined for the faith that was to be revealed. 24 Consequently, the law was our disciplinarian (pedagogue) for Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a disciplinarian (pedagogue).- NABRE Simply put, the pedagogue was a household slave who accompanied a free-born boy wherever he went from early life to around the age of sixteen. It was the responsibility of the pedagogue to take the child to school, carry his effects, test him in the memory of his lessons, and instruct him in the social graces of that time. It was the job of the pedagogue to protect, teach, punish, and aid in the moral development of the minor. - .F. F. Bruce,Commentary on Galatians. (Eerdmans: Grand Rapids; 1982) 182-3, and in F. Thielman’s article on “Law” in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters. (Inter Varsity: Downers Grove; 1994) 538-40. Hebrew 5:13.Everyone who lives on milk lacks experience of the word of righteousness, for he is a child. 14 But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties are trained by practice to discern good and evil. But if some, through weak-mindedness, wish to observe such institutions as were given by Moses, from which they expect some virtue, but which we believe were appointed by reason of the hardness of the peoples hearts… Justin Martyr (A.D. 160) Ante-Nicene Fathers vol.1 pg.218
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